Running, coding and mind dumps

I have just started learning the GNU Make/GCC/GNU Emacs (in terminal mode) combination, and ran into trouble when using swedish characters in GNU Emacs. I have previously worked with Emacs on the NeXT platform and on the ‘ol Amiga (in the MicroEmacs incarnation). But I never had this problem before.

The solution was simply to put the following lines in the ~/.emacs file: